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    Alexander Payne

    American film director, producer and screenwriter

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  1. Constantine Alexander Payne, a Greek American, was born on February 10, 1961 to George and Peggy Payne in Omaha, Nebraska. ... Alexander attended Brownell Talbot and Dundee for elementary school, Lewis and Clark Junior High and Creighton Prep High School. ...

  2. Director, producer and screenwriter Alexander Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, Peggy (Constantine) and George Payne, ran a Greek restaurant. His father is of Greek and German ancestry, and his mother is of Greek descent; the family name was originally Papadopoulos. He is the youngest of three brothers.

    • January 1, 1
    • 1.78 m
    • Omaha, Nebraska, USA
    • SIDEWAYS (2004) Writers: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor. Starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh.
    • THE HOLDOVERS (2023) Writer: David Hemingson. Starring Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston.
    • NEBRASKA (2013) Writer: Bob Nelson. Starring Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk. Nebraska native Payne pays tribute to his home state in this memorable road movie focusing on the aging Woody Grant (Oscar nominee Bruce Dern, superb), who is convinced that he has won a million-dollar prize in a magazine sweepstakes and asks his son David (Will Forte) to drive him there so that he can collect his winnings.
    • THE DESCENDANTS (2011) Writers: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash. Starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster.
  3. Nov 27, 2023 · Nov. 27, 2023 3:30 AM PT. “The Holdovers,” the new comedy-drama directed by Alexander Payne, is not just a movie that takes place in the early 1970s. From its earliest moments — the retro ...

  4. May 6, 2024 · As a child, he took an interest in the family’s 8-mm film projector, and he eventually made his own amateur movies. After studying history and Latin American literature at Stanford University (B.A., 1984), Payne attended film school at the University of California, Los Angeles (M.F.A., 1990).

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  6. Oct 26, 2023 · It’s not like the 62-year-old filmmaker lacks “A Film By” credentials. He’s won the adapted screenplay Oscar twice ( “Sideways,” “The Descendents” ), been nominated for director for those films...

  7. Jul 14, 2016 · Alexander Payne: Portrait of a Young Filmmaker. ©by Leo Adam Biga. Published in Jan. 22-28, 1998 issue of The Reader. Groundings. Darryl Zanuck. Fred Astaire. Henry Fonda. Dorothy McGuire. Montgomery Clift.

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